North Korea wants military talks with US
* North Korean military warns nuclear deal could be scrapped
SEOUL: North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, while Washington has said it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons programme.... 
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US ready to discuss 'broader issues' with North Korea: Hill
NARITA: US chief negotiator Christopher Hill said on Friday the United States was ready to discuss "broader issues" with North Korea after Pyongyang proposed military talks between the two countries. Hill, arriving in Japan on the start of an Asian tour ahead of the talks, declined to comment directly...
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Morocco detains 15 terror suspects
RABAT: Moroccan police have detained 15 radical Islamists on suspicions of plotting terror attacks in the North African country, the justice minister said.
"Arrests had been made, according to the information from the Kingdom's public prosecutor. Fifteen detainees are in custody, three of them...
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Woman held in UK bomb plot released
LONDON: British police said on Thursday they had released without charge the only woman among the eight suspects held in the case of failed bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last month.
The woman was the wife of suspect Mohammed Asha, 26, arrested with him on June 30 while the pair drove on...
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'Comfort women' wanted money: Japanese conservatives
TOKYO: Japanese conservative activists on Friday protested US congressional demands for a clear apology over wartime sexual slavery, saying the women were not slaves but just making money. Lawmakers, academics and journalists gave the US embassy a protest letter saying they were "surprised and shocked"...
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British minister hints at shift in US relations
* Alexander says UK must form new alliances, based on common values
* Brown's spokesman immediately rejects UK media claims
LONDON: A close ally of new Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hinted at a change to Britain's relationship with the United States, saying a nation's strength should...
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US more willing to work with other nations: Annan
KUALA LUMPUR: The United States is now more willing to work with other nations to achieve its global aims than when it led an invasion of Iraq in 2003, former UN chief Kofi Annan, who opposed the move, said on Friday.
Relations between the United States and the United Nations deteriorated after...
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Rice calls grim Iraq report ‘work in progress’
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday shrugged off a downbeat report on progress in the Iraq war, insisting "it's a work in progress."
"I don't agree you would give it a failing grade. You would say it's a work in progress," Rice, who took the infrequent step of appearing...
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Indonesia and Philippines expand security ties
JAKARTA: Indonesia and the Philippines have agreed to expand intelligence sharing and patrols on their porous borders to keep up pressure on Islamic militants, Jakarta's foreign minister said on Friday. "As neighbours with long sea borders stretching between the two countries, Indonesia and the Philippines...
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BBC chief vows to stay after apology to Queen
LONDON: The head of BBC One said on Friday he would not resign after the broadcaster was forced to apologise to the Queen for wrongly implying that she had stormed out of a photo shoot. The BBC blamed a production company for sending it clips edited out of sequence which implied the monarch had lost...
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Japan to develop reactors, cut nuclear waste
TOKYO: Japan's government and firms plan to jointly develop next-generation nuclear reactors, eyeing global demand for cleaner technology to process enriched uranium, a government official said on Friday. Some 10 companies including Toshiba Corp., Tokyo Electric Power Co., Hitachi Ltd and Mitsubishi...
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Thai army detains 342 Muslims in southern raids
BANGKOK: The Thai army said on Friday it had detained 342 Muslims, including seven women, in raids in the rebellious far south, one of the largest series of arrests in more than three years of separatist violence. Human rights group criticised the move, saying it exposed detainees to potential abuses...
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Chinese army worried about unfit food
BEIJING: China's growing list of food safety scandals has now prompted its army to step up checks on where its rations come from, a state newspaper said on Friday. The People's Liberation Army - whose 2.3 million servicemen make it the world's largest military - will only be allowed to order food from...
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Secrets of Assassins' fort unearthed in Syria
By Tom Perry
Anyone who tried to take the Assassins' castle would be dead the next day
Nestled at the foot of Syria's coastal mountains, an ancient citadel has been put on the tourist map by restoration and excavation that revealed mysteries of the medieval Assassins sect, once...
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R E G I O N: India concerned about Maoist insurgency
RAIPUR: The killing of 24 Indian troops this week by Maoist rebels has raised concerns over whether security forces can successfully battle the insurgents, officials and analysts said on Friday.
The jungle clash in central India erupted after a unit of 100 soldiers and armed police went to check...
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‘Afghan government not delivering’
KABUL: An Afghan provincial governor has lashed out against the government of President Hamid Karzai, saying there was a “vacuum of authority” in remote areas that the Taliban or criminals would fill.
In rare public criticism of the Karzai’s leadership by a senior official, the governor of Kapisa...
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Bid to extend Indian doctor’s detention dropped
CANBERRA: Australian and British police on Friday withdrew a court bid to extend the detention of an Indian doctor held for 11 days without charge over possible links to failed car bomb attacks in Britain.
Queensland-based doctor Mohamed Haneef, 27, is one of six Indian doctors questioned in...
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B’desh infirmary to treat ‘ailing’ corruption suspects
DHAKA: Bangladesh plans to set up a jail infirmary to cope with a flood of complaints of illness from high-profile suspects arrested in the government’s corruption crackdown, officials said Friday.
Authorities were unsure if the complaints of heart disease, kidney problems, asthma and diabetes...
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Tigers hold military drills to show strength
INSIDE REBEL TERRITORY: Separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas in green striped camouflage assaulted a mock government fort with gunfire, rockets and pipe bombs in an early morning drill Friday at a secret location in rebel-held territory in northern Sri Lanka.
Rebels escorted reporters along back...
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Master’s degree in magic at India’s Hogwarts
NEW DELHI: A top Indian magician is set to open a version of Harry Potter’s fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, hoping that a master’s degree in magic will help keep the ancient art form alive. PC Sorcar Jr., famous for astonishing thousands by making the Taj Mahal “vanish”, said he...
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India to register pregnancies to fight female foeticide
INDIA plans to create a registry of all pregnancies to help curb widespread female foeticide and reduce its high infant mortality rate, although activists say the scheme will be hard to implement.
“With this, mysterious abortions will become difficult,” Women and Child Development Minister Renuka...
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